Started as a small code, WordPress has grown to become the largest self hosted blogging tool in the world. WordPress is an open source project which means constant work is being done on it by users all around the world. Keeping the focus on usability and web standards, WordPress has become a state of the art publishing platform, free for all to use.
WordPress 2.7.1 has a completely redesigned new interface and provides options for automatic updates and automatic installation of plug ins from within the interface. All these features combined into one package make the user experience of site publishing pleasant.

Some of the features of WordPress 2.7.1 include:

. Use of a template system with themes that can be installed and switched in order to provide a suitable presentation for the site and its data. The source code of these themes can also be edited for more adaptable customizations.
. Use of automatic filters that can be used to format text in articles as well as a drag and drop facility that enables widgets to be placed anywhere on the site without altering the source HTML code.
. Use of integrated links with a clean permalink structure to assign nested and multiple categories to articles along with the support for tagging of articles. Trackback and Pingback standards display links to other sites that are themselves linked to posts or articles.
. Use of automatic update facility and a rich plug in facility that enable the users to extend the functionality beyond the normal functions present in the base install.
. Provision for a portable and customizable core.